# Funded PhD available (UK): CVE/OO

Chris Hand (cph@dmu.ac.uk)
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 04:48:59 PDT

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       This position was previously advertised and filled but for reasons
                unrelated to the project has become vacant again.

     This ad is on WWW at http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/MRG/advert.html

     * Eligibility restrictions apply for non-UK residents.  For more      *
     * info see http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/Research/MRG/advert-overseas.html *

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        Funded PhD Studentship in Collaborative Virtual Environments for
                        Distributed Software Engineering

                          School of Computing Sciences
                        De Montfort University, Leicester

                              in collaboration with

                      British Telecom Research Laboratories
                       Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk

    Applications are invited for a funded 3-year full-time PhD research
    studentship tenable at the Department of Computer Science, De Montfort
    University, Leicester.  The focus of the work is in investigating
    distributed collaborative working environments for software engineering.

    Applicants should hold a first or upper-second class honours degree, MSc
    or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related
    discipline.  Experience of Java, C++ or other OO programming language is
    required.  Knowledge of distributed object technologies (such as CORBA),
    CSCW, Virtual Environments, MOO/MUDs or UNIX is preferred.

    The successful candidate will work on a joint project with British
    Telecom investigating the use of collaborative virtual environments to
    support distributed software engineering.  Work will be undertaken at De
    Montfort University's Leicester campus, although the candidate will be
    expected to spend at least 3 months in total at BT's research labs in
    Martlesham.

    The position is funded by an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award, and
    remuneration will be according to standard EPSRC maintenance grant rates,
    supplemented by a significant contribution from BT.

    Applicants should send a detailed CV by fax, post or e-mail (ASCII, RTF
    or PostScript only; non-ASCII as MIME or uuencoded), to arrive no later
    than 19th September 1996.  CVs must include contact details of at least
    two referees (e-mail or telephone). Informal enquiries are also welcome.
    Interviews will be held in Leicester on 24th September (provisional
    date).

    The successful candidate must be able to take up the studentship on or
    before 1st October 1996.

    Contact:

        Chris Hand
        Department of Computer Science
        De Montfort University
        The Gateway
        Leicester  LE1 9BH

        E-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk
           Tel: 0116 257-7498     (direct line)
           Fax: 0116 254-1891

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    Chris Hand, Senior Lecturer             | Dept of Computer Science,
    e-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk                   | De Montfort University, The Gateway
       WWW: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~cph/  | LEICESTER, UK   LE1 9BH